Lillian Ruth Kessler
In 1982, when she retired from the presidency of Kessler International Corporation, Lillian Kessler prepared a brochure listing the principal export items of the company she had founded in 1946. The...
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Olga Taussky-Todd called herself a “torchbearer for matrix theory.” Her subject originated in the mid-nineteenth century, remaining a province of mathematicians until physicists reinvented it in the...
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Judith Resnik
One of the seven crew members who died in the tragic explosion of the space shuttle Challenger on January 28, 1986, Judith (“J.R.”) Resnik was a pioneer for women entering NASA’s space program, and...
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Girls in science, sure. But what about engineering?
Photo credit: Deutsche Fotothek, 1979. I got my copy of Ms. Magazine yesterday and in it, and was excited to see an article called “Girls Love Robots, Too,” about a group of girls in San Diego who...
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MIT’s Shafi Goldwasser wins “the Nobel Prize in computing”
MIT Professors Shafi Goldwasser and Silvio Micali, winners of the 2013 ACM Alan M. Turing Award. Photo by Jason Dorfman, CSAIL/MIT. Permission from MIT News Office.June 15, 2013Professor Shafi...
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Judith Resnik, first American Jewish astronaut and second woman in space
View of Mission Specialist Judith Resnik sitting on the floor of the middeck on September 8, 1984. Beside her on a notebook is a note which says "Hi Dad". Above her head on the middeck lockers are...
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Living by Their Own Codes
Image courtesy of Irene GreifRadia Perlman, 2009Women who make history rarely feel the need to adhere to others' narratives—and that goes double for Jewish women. So it's not surprising that when...
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Judith Resnik
The second female American astronaut to travel into space, Judith Resnik is remembered for her death in the tragic Challenger explosion. Resnik studied electrical engineering at Carnegie Tech (now...
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Actress Hedy Lamarr patents the basis for WiFi
Hedy Lamarr in Her Highness and the Bellboy, 1943. Photo in the public domain.August 11, 1942On this date in 1942, Hollywood actress Hedy Lamarr (called “the most beautiful woman in Hollywood”)...
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Hertha Ayrton
The first woman proposed for membership in the Royal Society, Hertha Ayrton created inventions from tools architects used for enlarging and reducing drawings to fans that could clear poison gas from...
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Shafi Goldwasser
RightsCreative Commons (attribution non-commercial share alike)InstitutionWeizmann Institute
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Safra Catz, 2010
RightsCreative Commons (attribution non-commercial share alike)Date / time2010
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Radia Perlman
A software designer and network engineer, Radia Perlman earned a place in internet history for creating the Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) which governs how information is sent between servers. Perlman...
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Shafi Goldwasser
Shafi Goldwasser was honored with the Turing Award, the highest honor in computer science, for her work in revolutionizing the field of cryptography. Raised in Israel, Shafira Goldwasser graduated from...
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Safra Catz
As president and then CEO of Oracle, one of the world’s largest software companies, Safra Catz has helped shape the present and future of the computer world. Catz graduated from the Wharton School at...
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Janet Lieberman
With her mastery of 3D printing, Janet Lieberman helped create the first successful hands-free couples’ vibrator in 2014. Lieberman earned a BS from MIT in mechanical engineering in 2007 and...
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Living by Their Own Codes
Irene Greif.Courtesy of Irene Greif.Radia Perlman, software designer and network engineer, 2009.Women who make history rarely feel the need to adhere to others' narratives—and that goes double for...
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Judith Resnik
The second female American astronaut to travel into space, Judith Resnik is remembered for her death in the tragic Challenger explosion. Resnik studied electrical engineering at Carnegie Tech (now...
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Hertha Ayrton
The first woman proposed for membership in the Royal Society, Hertha Ayrton created inventions from tools architects used for enlarging and reducing drawings to fans that could clear poison gas from...
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Shafi Goldwasser
RightsCreative Commons (attribution non-commercial share alike)InstitutionWeizmann Institute
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